Arctic Monkeys to headline Eire’s Electrical Picnic 2022
Arctic Monkeys have been introduced as one of many headliners for this 12 months’s Electrical Picnic – take a look at the total line-up under.
Alex Turner and co. will high the invoice on the Irish music and humanities competition on Sunday, September 4 alongside Tame Impala (September 3) and Dermot Kennedy (2). Tickets go on normal sale right here tomorrow (March 11) at 9am GMT.
Elsewhere on the line-up for Electrical Picnic 2022 are the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, Wolf Alice, Pixies, Little Simz, Fontaines D.C., London Grammar, Glass Animals, The Kooks, Shiny Eyes, Woman In Crimson and Sleaford Mods.
Additionally showing throughout the weekend can be Willow, Gang Of Youths, Khruangbin, Pleasure Crookes, Rina Sawayama, Fragrance Genius and Griff. Organisers promise that “many extra” acts can be confirmed over the approaching months.
You may take a look at the Electrical Picnic line-up to this point within the announcement tweet under.
Right here is your first have a look at the #EP22 line up!
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 9am sharp. 🎫✨@ArcticMonkeys / @tameimpala / @DermotKennedy @theestallion / @picturethis / @snowpatrol + many extraTICKETS: https://t.co/rc3iYzartf pic.twitter.com/XA0aTR7YL3
— Electrical Picnic (@EPfestival) March 10, 2022
Arctic Monkeys’ return to Eire will come after they headline Studying & Leeds 2022 in August. Late final 12 months, the Sheffield band’s drummer Matt Helders revealed that AM’s seventh album was “just about” completed.
Since then, the group have introduced a string of European headline dates in addition to varied competition reveals together with at Sziget Competition, Cala Mijas, Rock En Seine and the inaugural Primavera Sound Los Angeles.
Talking in regards to the sound of Arctic Monkeys’ subsequent full-length effort – the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Tranquility Base Lodge & On line casino’ – Helders stated final November: “We are likely to all the time transfer it on somewhat bit. For us, as a result of we’re so concerned in it, it all the time is sensible.
“[Our albums] all the time form of choose up the place the opposite one left off in a manner. It is sensible when you consider it within the context of the final report. However we all the time do attempt to do one thing a bit totally different – it’s form of laborious to explain. You may inform it’s the identical band.”
The Monkeys’ upcoming LP is listed as considered one of NME‘s 20 albums to get enthusiastic about in 2022 – take a look at the total record right here.